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Maryland Federal Judge Denies Request By Defense For Ex Parte Communications With Plaintiff’s Treating Physicians In Medical Malpractice Case

December 7, 2025

For the Court to issue a disclosure order permitting ex parte communications with persons disclosing protected information under HIPAA, the party moving for such an order must demonstrate a compelling reason why traditional discovery methods are insufficient. Furthermore, mere desires to level the p[...]

High Death Rates For Dialysis Centers In The United States

December 6, 2025

An investigation by a CBS News Data Team found that death rates for kidney dialysis patients in the United States are among the highest in the industrialized world: one-third of the nation’s dialysis centers have failed to meet federal performance standards. Texas, which has the highest number[...]

Ohio Supreme Court Discusses Naming “Additional” Defendants In Medical Malpractice Cases

December 5, 2025

In Ohio, a medical malpractice plaintiff must commence a medical-claim action within one year after the cause of action accrued. R.C. 2305.113(A). Under Civ.R. 3(A), “[a] civil action is commenced by filing a complaint with the court, if service is obtained within one year from such filing upon a [...]

New York’s Highest Appellate Court Refuses To Allow Recovery For Mother’s Emotional Damages For Baby Born Alive But Who Died Shortly After Birth Due To Medical Negligence During Delivery

December 4, 2025

Plaintiff Veronica SanMiguel was admitted to defendant St. Barnabas Hospital (St. Barnabas) on July 1, 2012, after she did not go into labor by her due date. She came under the care of defendant Dr. Meryl Y. Grimaldi who, along with St. Barnabas’s nursing staff, induced labor. On the morning of Ju[...]

ProMedica Health System, Inc. Sued By U.S. For Providing Grossly Substandard Nursing Home Services

December 3, 2025

The United States has intervened and filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania under the False Claims Act (FCA) against ProMedica Health System, Inc. (ProMedica) and various affiliated entities including HCR ManorCare Inc. and four nursing homes located in[...]

HHS Repeals Federal Nursing Home Staffing Mandate

December 2, 2025

On December 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) repealed provisions of the Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting Final Rule, originally finalized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Defendant In Lack Of Informed Consent Case

December 2, 2025

The plaintiffs, Rohini Meka and her husband, Suresh Chirumamilla, filed suit on September 18, 2020, in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. They named as defendants Dr. Hani Haddad, Valley Women’s Health Group, LLC, and Jane/John Doe, asserting various Massachuse[...]

North Carolina Supreme Court Rules Medical Malpractice Interlocutory Order Not Appealable Until End Of Case

December 1, 2025

On February 16, 2022, Doris Land and her husband filed their North Carolina medical malpractice action against Dr.Whitley, Physicians East, P.A. d/b/a Greenville OB/GYN, and Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Vidant Medical Center and d/b/a Vidant SurgiCenter, for negligence and gross neglige[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Doctor Not Entitled To Summary Judgment In HIE Malpractice Case

November 30, 2025

In its July 25, 2025 Memorandum and Opinion, the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Circuit, affirmed the trial court’s denial of the medical malpractice defendant’s motion for summary judgment, stating: Plaintiff commenced this medical malpractice act[...]

$2.1M Virginia Medical Malpractice Settlement For Misdiagnosed Nasopharyngeal Cancer

November 29, 2025

In July 2025, a Virginia medical malpractice case involving the alleged failure of a neuroradiologist to diagnose the plaintiff’s nasopharyngeal cancer from an MRI in 2022, which delay allegedly led to the cancer proceeding from Stage Two (curable) to Stage Four (incurable) when the cancer was[...]

Study Finds Quality Of Florida Nursing Home Care Declined After Change To Private-Equity Ownership

November 28, 2025

Between 2019 and 2024, 425 nursing homes in Florida (over 60% of Florida’s total nursing homes) changed ownership, with at least one-third of these sold to private equity investors. In 2019, 29 of Florida’s total nursing home facilities reported ownership changes. In 2020, the number of owne[...]

Audit Finds Tennessee Health Facilities Commission Failures In Its Nursing Homes Oversight

November 27, 2025

The first official performance audit of the Tennessee Health Facilities Commission, which is required to survey nursing homes and assisted care living facilities every 15 months to ensure they continue to meet state and federal healthand safety standards, found that from July 1, 2022, through April [...]

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